Starting next July, every person in Finland will have the right to a one-megabit broadband connection, says the Ministry of Transport and Communications. Finland is the world's first country to create laws guaranteeing broadband access.

The government had already decided to make a 100 Mb broadband connection a legal right by the end of 2015. On Wednesday, the Ministry announced the new goal as an intermediary step.

It is not clear who will pay for the infrastructure, or if users will just get access everywhere for "free." There is no indication the Fins will mandate computer manufactures and cell phone makers distribute free computers and iPhones, but without a device to actually access the Internet, there is no Internet.

The internet is important, but it is not logical to rationalize the addition of internet access to the list of human rights. . . If internet access eventually ends up on this list of human rights it will have the potential to make this list as meaningless as the Noble Prize is currently.